Deputy Mayors - Reporting

Gareth Bacon: Can you provide the reporting structure for each of your Deputy Mayors and their departments/teams?

The Mayor: My Deputy Mayors report to me through my Chief of Staff.
GLA and functional body departments report through line management structures to the relevant chief officer, not to a Deputy Mayor. The exceptions to this are:
The latter two points are subject to the respective schemes of delegation.

Deputy Mayors - Advisors

Gareth Bacon: Can you provide details of which (if any) of your Deputy Mayors have dedicated advisors/staff, how many of them there are, and their respective salary grades?

The Mayor: The following Deputy Mayors each have a dedicated advisor:
Within the GLA, these posts have all been evaluated at Grade 11. The post of advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime has been evaluated at MOPAC Grade (equivalent to GLA Grade 11). Advisors report to the relevant Deputy Mayor, with the exception of those marked above with an asterisk who sit within the relevant policy team.
In addition, each Deputy Mayor has a personal assistant for diary and correspondence management, employed either by the GLA (at Grade 6) or by the relevant functional body. These posts do not report to the Deputy Mayors.
The Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience also has a temporary administrator post (not reporting to her) to help manage workload ahead of the formation of the GLA Fire & Resilience team as set out in the Chief Officer’s recent restructure consultation.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is also supported by a Head of Private Office (MOPAC grade 3) who reports through the MOPAC line management structures and has a number of wider responsibilities.

Deputy Mayors - Budgets

Gareth Bacon: What is the total controllable budget for each of your Deputy Mayors, and in which departmental areas of the GLA’s overall budget are these located?

The Mayor: GLA-employed Deputy Mayors are in law Mayoral advisors, and as such advise me on my budget decisions rather than acting as budget holders themselves. Under the GLA scheme of delegation, budget decisions not of a size or significance that they need to be taken by me are generally delegated to Executive Directors or Assistant Directors in accordance with my previous decisions. In practice, GLA officers will consult the relevant Deputy Mayor about these decisions, which are reported to the Corporate Investment Board before being taken, providing all Deputy Mayors with the opportunity to comment.
Through Mayoral Decisions, I may delegate specific approvals to a Deputy Mayor, either directly or in consultation with the relevant Executive Director. These are as set out in the relevant published decision form.
Planning decisions taken under delegated authority by the Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills, the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development or the Statutory Deputy Mayor may incur costs for the GLA (for example, associated with ‘calling in’ a planning application). These are met from within the GLA Planning Unit’s budget.
The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime operates within the MOPAC and MPS schemes of delegation and takes decisions on Metropolitan Police and MOPAC expenditure exceeding £500,000.
The Deputy Mayor for Fire and Resilience operates within the GLA and LFC schemes of delegation and takes decisions on London Fire Brigade expenditure exceeding £150,000.
The Deputy Mayor for Transport (as Deputy Chair of TfL) and Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills sit on functional body boards and committees and so take part in collective budget decision making. This is also the case where Deputy Mayors serve on other organisations outside the GLA and its functional bodies, for example the Deputy Mayor for Business as Chair of London & Partners.
Provision for Deputy Mayors’ incidental expenses (travel, training, IT equipment) is part of the Mayor’s Office budget managed by my Chief of Staff, with the exception of the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, where these are covered by MOPAC.